Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2004
Closed Date: 2008
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On September 28, 2004, the Memphis and Nashville offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII against AFG Industries, Inc. in the U.s. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by discharging him when he refused to work on a Saturday due to the fact that he was a practicing Seventh-Day Adventist.
On December 28, 2004, the complainant intervened in the case as a plaintiff. On September 15, 2005, the parties entered into a consent decree, which the court adopted on September 29, 2005. Pursuant to the consent decree, the intervenor-plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his claims against the defendants. Under the terms of the decree, the defendants agreed to pay $65,000 in compensatory damages to the complainant and to expunge his employment record of any reference to the events surrounding this lawsuit. In addition, defendants agreed to provide 2 hours of employment discrimination awareness training to all supervisory and management personnel within 180 days of the consent decree. Oddly, even though the consent decree called for ongoing injunctive relief to last three years, the case was dismissed, on the parties' joint motion, a few days later.
In any event, more than three years has passed and no additional activity appears on the docket, so it is certainly now closed.
Summary Authors
Kristen Sagar (3/17/2008)
Inman, Dennis H. (Tennessee)
Inman, Dennis H. (Tennessee)
Last updated April 15, 2024, 3:22 a.m.
State / Territory: Tennessee
Case Type(s):
Special Collection(s):
Key Dates
Filing Date: Sept. 28, 2004
Closing Date: 2008
Case Ongoing: No
Plaintiffs
Plaintiff Description:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on behalf of one or more workers.
Plaintiff Type(s):
Attorney Organizations:
Public Interest Lawyer: Yes
Filed Pro Se: No
Class Action Sought: No
Class Action Outcome: Not sought
Defendants
AFG Industries, Inc. (Kingsport, Tennessee), Private Entity/Person
Case Details
Causes of Action:
Title VII (including PDA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e
Available Documents:
Injunctive (or Injunctive-like) Relief
Outcome
Prevailing Party: Plaintiff
Nature of Relief:
Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief:
Form of Settlement:
Court Approved Settlement or Consent Decree
Amount Defendant Pays: 65000
Order Duration: 2005 - 2008
Content of Injunction:
Expungement of Employment Record
Provide antidiscrimination training
Issues
Discrimination-area:
Discharge / Constructive Discharge / Layoff
Discrimination-basis:
EEOC-centric: